January | 2009 | Watching America

Argentina: Ex-Prisoner Relates Horror Lived in Guantanamo

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in La Nacion

...Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention center was very well received by this Chinese Muslim of Uyghur ethnicity, sheltered now in Albania, who assured that “the sooner they close Guantanamo, the better."

U.K.: Obama’s Spending Programme

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in The Times

The developed world looks to the U.S. to counteract recession.

Japan: Obama Magic Unlikely To Work With India

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in The Japan Times

While the rest of the world swoons over the new U.S. president, India is conspicuous by the discomfort that the new political dispensation is generating in the corridors of power in New Delhi.

Lebanon: What’s the Point of Talking to Iran and Syria?

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in Ya Libnan

Canada: Test for Obama on Protectionism

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in Toronto Star

Italy : Web Newspapers in an Advertising Crisis: Is Micropayments A Solution?

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in La Repubblica

Germany: How To Be Obama

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in Financial Times - Deutschland

Germany: Obama’s Implacable Opposition

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in die Zeit

Tax money used to improve infrastructure, to build new roads and repair schools, for early childhood development and health care, to develop alternative energy sources and public transportation was and still is to them an expression of liberal wastefulness and therefore the work of Satan.

Germany: Obama: Keeping an Eye on Iraqi Voters

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in Frankfurter Rundschau

China: Bush’s Foreign Policy Legacy

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in Caijing

America has, for eight years, systematically violated international norms and its own deeply held liberal values.

New Zealand: Lest We Forget: ObamaIs Just a Politician

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in New Zealand Herald

Obamania is unhealthy because Obama is a politician.

U.K.: Health Problems at the Big Three

Robin Koerner - January 31, 2009. Published in The Guardian

It's not creative production or fewer unions that distinguish other car-producing nations from the U.S., it's universal healthcare

Monthly Archives: January, 2009